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Winter Has Me

Don McLean
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 album. But it comes from the album
 Homeless (1974).
  The song starts with flageolets on
  the twelfth and seventh fret. I'd guess the song is easy to play
  when you heard it on the record. The musical intermezzo are
  just the chords in the refrain until the Em. But i guess you'll
find that out. Just before he plays Winter has me etc. there's a
little solo which is played this way:
----------------3---3---2------|
---------------0-0-0---3-------|
-------0------0---0---2--------|
--0-0h2------------------------|
---------------------2---------|
-----------3-------------------|
  winter has me etc.
 In fact i have to admit this song is worked out by an old
 schoolfriend: henny fonville. I haven't seen him for more than 10
 years, but maybe some day he finds his way to OLGA too.
  Well good luck playing it,
 Winter has me in it's grip - Don Mclean
 
  (B-bass)
 Winter has me in it's grip
 think  i'll take a summer  trip
 on  a sunny sailing  ship
 where  the shells lie  in the sand
  musical intermezzo
 
  (B-bass)
 I feel so lonely
 I'm  to young to feel this old
 
  (B-bass)
 I need you and you only
 when  the weather gets this  cold
 Winter has me in it's etc.
 There's no use in going
 cause it's cold inside my heart
 and it's always snowing
 since the day we broke apart
 Winter has me in it's etc.
 I tried to run from winter
 like this spring and summer run to fall
 But when the weather 's in you
 ther's no hiding place at all, thats why

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Readable chord sheet for Winter Has Me by Don McLean

album. But it comes from the album
Homeless (1974).
 The song starts with flageolets on
  the twelfth and seventh fret. I'd guess the song is easy to play
  when you heard it on the record. The musical intermezzo are
  just the chords in the refrain until the Em. But i guess you'll
  find that out. Just before he plays Winter has me etc. there's a
  little solo which is played this way:
  ----------------3---3---2------|
  ---------------0-0-0---3-------|
  -------0------0---0---2--------|
  --0-0h2------------------------|
  ---------------------2---------|
  -----------3-------------------|
             winter has me etc.

In fact i have to admit this song is worked out by an old
schoolfriend: henny fonville. I haven't seen him for more than 10
years, but maybe some day he finds his way to OLGA too.

  Well good luck playing it,

Winter has me in it's grip - Don Mclean

 [G]
 [D](B-bass)
Winter has me in it's grip

t[Am]hink i'll take a sum[D7]mer trip

o[Am]n a sunny sa[D7]iling ship

w[Em]here the shells li[D7]e in the sand

  musical intermezzo

 [G]
 [D](B-bass)
I feel so lonely

I[Am]'m to young to feel this ol[D7]d

 [G]
 [D](B-bass)
I need you and you only

w[Am]hen the weather gets [D7]this cold

Winter has me in it's etc.

There's no use in going
cause it's cold inside my heart
and it's always snowing
since the day we broke apart

Winter has me in it's etc.

I tried to run from winter
like this spring and summer run to fall
But when the weather 's in you
ther's no hiding place at all, thats why

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